Publications

Publication List

2016

Müller G, van Kleunen M & Dawson W (2016)
Commonness and rarity of alien and native plant species - The roles of intraspecific competition and plant-soil feedback.
Oikos in press.

2015

Dellinger A, Essl F, Hojsgaard D, Kirchheimer B, Klatt S, Dawson W, Pergl J, Pysek P, van Kleunen M, Weber E, Winter M, Hoerandl E & Dullinger S (2015)
Niche dynamics of alien species do not differ among sexual and apomictic flowering plants.
New Phytologist, doi: 10.1111/nph.13694.

Dawson W (2015)
Release from belowground enemies and shifts in root traits as interrelated drivers of alien plant invasion success: A hypothesis.
Ecology and Evolution, 5:4505-4516.

van Kleunen M, Dawson W, Essl F, Pergl J, Winter M, Weber E, Kreft H, Weigelt P, Kartesz J, Nishino M, Antonova La, Barcelona JF, Cabezas FJ, Cárdenas D, Cárdenas-Toro J, Castaño N, Chacón C, Chatelain C, Ebel AL, Figueiredo D, FuentesN, Groom QJ, Henderson L, Inderjit, Kupriyanov A, Masciadri S, Meerman J, MorozovaO , Moser D, Nickrent D, Patzelt A, Pelser PB, Baptiste MP, Poopath M, Schulze M, Seebens H, Shu W, Thomas J, Velayos M, Wieringa JJ & Pyšek P (2015)
Global exchange and accumulation of non-native plants.
Nature 525:100-1003.

König J, van Kleunen M & Dawson W (2015)
No consistent legacy effects of invasion by Giant Goldenrod (Solidago gigantea) via soil biota on native plant growth.
Journal of Plant Ecology,  doi:10.1093/jpe/rtv054.

Seebens H, Essl F, Dawson W, Fuentes N, Moser D, Perg J, Pyšek P, van Kleunen M, Weber E, Winter M & Blasius B (2015)
Global trade will accelerate plant invasions in emerging economies under climate change.
Global Change Biology, 21:4128-4140.

Hulme PE, Pauchard AB, Pyšek P, Vila M, Alba C, Blackburn TM, Bullock JM, Chytry M, Dawson W, Dunn AM, Essl F, Genovesi P, Maskell LC, Meyerson LA, Nuñez MA, Pergl J, Pescott OL, Pocock MJO, Richardson DM, Roy HE, Smart SM, Štajerova K, Stohlgren TJ, van Kleunen M & Winter M. (2015)
Challenging the view that invasive non-native plants are not a significant threat to the floristic diversity of Great Britain.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, early edition.

Keser LH, Visser EJW, Dawson W, Song Y-B, Yu F-H, Fischer M, Dong M & van Kleunen M (2015)
Herbaceous plant species invading natural areas tend to have stronger adaptive root foraging than other naturalized species.
Frontiers in Plant Science, online.

Lemmermeyer S, Loercher L, van Kleunen M & Dawson W (2015).
Testing the plant growth-defense hypothesis belowground: do faster-growing herbaceous plant species suffer more negative effects from soil biota than slower-growing ones?
The American Naturalist 186:264-271.

Dawson W, Burslem DFRP, Hulme PE (2015)
Consistent effects of disturbance and forest edges on the invasion of a continental rainforest by alien plants.
Biotropica, 47:27-37.

Dawson W, Maurel N & van Kleunen M (2015)
A new perspective on trait differences between native and invasive exotic plants: comment.
Ecology 96:1150-1152.

van Kleunen M, Dawson W & Maurel N (2015)
Characteristics of successful alien plants.
Molecular Ecology, 24:1954-1968.

2014

Kundel D, van Kleunen M, Dawson W (2014)
Invasion by Solidago species has limited impacts on soil seed bank communities.
Basic and Applied Ecology, 15:573-580.

Dawson W, Bottini A, Fischer M, van Kleunen M & Knop E (2014)
Little evidence for release from herbivores as a driver of invasiveness from a multi-species herbivore-removal experiment.
Oikos 123:1509-1518

Keser LH, Dawson W, Song YB, Yu FH, Fischer M, Dong M & van Kleunen M (2014)
Invasive clonal plant species have a greater root-foraging plasticity than non-invasive ones.
Oecologia 174:1055-64.

van Kleunen M, Dawson W, Bossdorf O & Fischer M (2014)
The more the merrier: multi-species experiments in ecology.
Basic and Applied Ecology 15:1-9.

2013

Hulme PE, Burslem DFRP, Dawson W, Edward E, Richard J & Trevelyan R (2013)
Aliens in the Arc: Are invasive trees a threat to the montane forests of East Africa?
In: Foxcroft LC et al. (eds.) Plant invasions in protected areas: patterns, problems and challenges. Springer, Dordrecht, pp 145-165.

Dawson W, Keser LH, Winter M, Pyšek P, Kartesz J, Nishino M, Fuentes N, Chytrý M, Celesti-Grapow L & van Kleunen M (2013)
Correlations between global and regional measures of invasiveness vary with region size.
NeoBiota 16:59-80.

Dostál P,  Allan E, Dawson W, van Kleunen M, Bartish I & Fischer M (2013)
Enemy damage of exotic plant species is similar to that of natives and increases with productivity.
Journal of Ecology 101:388-399.

Song Y-B, Yu F-H, Keser LH, Dawson W, Fischer, Dong & van Kleunen M (2013)
United we stand, divided we fall: a meta-analysis of experiments on clonal integration and its relationship to invasiveness
Oecologia 171:317-327.

Dostál P, Dawson W, van Kleunen M, Keser LH & Fischer M (2013)
Central European plant species from more productive habitats are more invasive at a global scale.
Global Ecology and Biogeography 22:64-72

2012

Kumschick S, Bacher S, Dawson W, Heikkilä J,  Sendek A, Pluess T, Robinson T, Kuehn I (2012)
A conceptual framework for prioritization of invasive alien species for management according to their impact.
NeoBiota 15:69-100.

Dawson W, Fischer M & van Kleunen M  (2012)
Co mmon and rare plant species respond differently to fertilisation and competition, whether they are alien or native.
Ecology Letters 15:873-880.

Dawson W, Rohr RP, van Kleunen M & Fischer M (2012)
Alien plant species with a wider global distribution are better able to capitalize on increased resource availability.
New Phytologist 194:859-867.

2011

Dawson, W, Burslem DFRP & Hulme PE (2011)
The comparative importance of species traits and introduction characteristics in tropical plant invasions.
Diversity and Distributions 17:1111–1121.

van Kleunen, M, Dawson, W & Dostal P (2011)
Research on invasive-plant traits tells us a lot.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28:317.

Dawson W, Fischer M & van Kleunen M (2011)
Maximum relative growth rate of common UK plant species is positively associated with their global invasiveness.
Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 299-306.

2010

van Kleunen M, Dawson W, Schlaepfer DR, Jeschke JM & Fischer M (2010)
Are invaders different? A conceptual framework of comparative approaches for assessing determinants of invasiveness.
Ecology Letters 13: 947-958.

Chun YJ, van Kleunen M & Dawson W (2010)
The role of enemy release, tolerance and resistance in plant invasions: linking damage to performance.
Ecology Letters 13: 937-946.

Gordon DR, Mitterdorfer B, Pheloung PC, Ansari S, Buddenhagen C, Chimera C, Daehler CC, Dawson W, Denslow JS, LaRosa A-M, Nishida T, Onderdonk DA, Panetta FP, Pysek P, Randall RP, Richardson DM, Tshidada NJ, Virtue JG & Williams, P (2010)
Guidance for addressing the Australian Weed Risk Assessment questions.
Plant Protection Quarterly 25: 56-74.

2009

Dawson W, Burslem DFRP, Hulme PE (2009)
Factors explaining alien plant invasion success in a tropical ecosystem differ at each stage of invasion.
Journal of Ecology 97: 657-665.

Dawson W, Burslem DFRP, Hulme PE (2009)
The suitability of weed risk assessment as a conservation tool to identify invasive plant threats in East African rain-forests.
Biological Conservation 142: 1018-1024.

Dawson W, Burslem DFRP and Hulme PE (2009)
Herbivory is related to taxonomic isolation, but not to invasiveness of tropical alien plants.
Diversity and Distributions 15: 141-147.

2008

Dawson W, Mndolwa AS, Burslem DFRP & Hulme PE (2008)
Assessing the risks of plant invasions arising from collections in tropical botanical gardens.
Biodiversity & Conservation, 17, 1979-1995.